I did notice two sprayed-out areas in the DA cess, just before & just after the M60 viaduct - these must be for 2 new portals. Additionally, at Stalybridge, I noticed a small team of engineers working behind a fenced-off area beyond the Platform 5 buffers - perhaps that'll be for an anchor supporting wires into P5?
aka a wicketkeeper anchor?
The very same!
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This planning application on Tameside Council's website shows that a little bit of land around the back of the Rassbottom Trading Estate & Stalybridge Scout Hut will need to be acquired. It also, rather handily, shows that the majority of structures on the approach to Stalybridge from the west will indeed be Portals - even the "MVL/xx/xx" numbers are given.
Feels like about a full tension length (from the green footbridges west of the M60 to the eastern end of the Clayton Viaduct). IIRC there are still a couple of structures missing on the Down.
Wire runs began last week.
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AFAIK, Neville Hill won't be accessible for a time. So I imagine an alternative location will be required. And given the expression of interest into new rolling stock to take advantage of TRU, I'd imagine Hitachi will need somewhere bigger than just Doncaster.
I seem to recall Healey Mills was suggested as an alternative site while NL is offline, though that may have just been speculation. Use of the Healey Mills site would require a LOT of work, as over the last decade and a bit since it was cleared and decommissioned it has basically become a forest.
There are also some new sidings at Blackburn station, (i.e. not in the light maintenance depot) and aren't there also some going in at Hunslet?
They will also lose some stabling locations in the coming years. As well as Neville Hill being temporarily unavailable, the new platforms at Huddersfield will mean the removal of the sidings currently there. There has been rumour that a light maintenance depot will be built at Hillhouse (between Huddersfield and Deighton) but this can't happen until after the route upgrade is completed in that area, as the site is set to be used for a temporary station while Huddersfield is being rebuilt.
Discussed in speculative ideas here https://www.railforums.co.uk/thread...imeline-and-ideas.130416/page-12#post-5872721
Can't think of anywhere suitable in the Shipley area off the top of my head, unless Crossleys scrapyard is closing.
Wakefield Cobra was to replace Holbeck while that was cut off IIRC. Perhaps, once the Holbeck work is done, Holbeck & Cobra would be used together?
From what I've heard Crossleys is closing (if you go past by rail it does seem significantly emptier recently) and there may also be some additional space created at Skipton for stabling.
